Dubious Pundits: Presidential Politics, Late-Night Comedy, and the Public Sphere

This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, and newspaper commentary about them.

Nickie Michaud Wild is visiting lecturer of sociology at Mount Holyoke College.